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Examining the Association Between Citizenship and Ethnicity on Identity Theft Risk: Findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey
Studies examining citizenship, ethnicity, and victimization risk have offered mixed findings. Despite this, works have largely focused upon...
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The Evaluation of Cybercrime in South Africa: A Review of the Impact of Identity Theft Menace on the Economy
Identity theft has remained a hugely lucrative industry for criminals for years, and the world has lost funds to this crime, of which South Africa is...
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The Organised Theft of Medicines: a Study of the Methods for Stealing and Reselling Medicines and Medical Devices in the EU and Beyond
The theft of medicines is a significant component of the illicit trade in pharmaceutical products. Besides small-scale thefts committed for personal...
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Identity fraud victimization: a critical review of the literature of the past two decades
This study aims to provide an understanding of the nature, extent, and quality of the research evidence on identity fraud victimization in the US....
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Identity Theft: Nature, Extent, and Global Response
Identity theft is considered to be one of the fastest growing crimes. With the growth of identity theft, research on identity theft offending and...
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Identitas per Fabulam: Joint Fantasising in the Construction of Criminal Group Identities
We investigate the role of joint fantasising in constructing criminal identities. By analysing joint fantasies that emerge from interactions among...
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“They Steal Our Work”: Wage Theft and the Criminalization of Immigrant Day Laborers in Colorado, USA
Latino immigrant day laborers are among the most vulnerable populations in the USA, frequently subject to work-related abuses such as wage theft in...
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Property theft in places of worship in Osogbo City, Nigeria
In Nigeria, thieves specialising in property theft are increasingly targeting churches, mosques, shrines, and worshippers using these religious...
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Identity Theft: Nature, Extent, and Global Response
Identity theft is considered to be one of the fastest growing crimes. With the growth of identity theft, research on identity theft offending and...
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What Has the Rational Choice Perspective Told Us About Crime
This chapter conducts a whistle stop review of some of the studies using the Rational Choice Perspective of offending to look into a range of offence...
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Measuring the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on crime in a medium-sized city in China
Abstract ObjectivesThe study examines the variation in the daily incidence of eight acquisitive crimes: automobile theft, electromobile theft,...
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Crime News, Media and Identity
This chapter begins with a sociological exploration of crime victims and victimisation that engages with media and media representations. A key site...
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A crime script analysis of transnational identity fraud: migrant offenders’ use of technology in South Korea
The study aims to better understand transnational identity fraud utilizing crime script analysis. Drawing upon the author’s ethnographic data from...
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Document Fraud: Will Your Identity Be Secure in the Twenty-first Century?
Document fraud has been qualified by Europol as one of the major cross-cutting engines of organised crime. The use of fraudulent identity and travel...
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Show Me the Money! Identity Fraud Losses, Capacity to Act, and Victims’ Efforts for Reimbursement
In the Internet age, identity fraud has become quite a popular way to steal money—resulting in substantial numbers of victims as evidenced by...
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Protecting Works of Art from Theft
Art crime continues to be one of the most prevailing crime issues in the world. Theft of works of art robs us of our cultural heritage, our identity,...
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On Systemic and Epistemic Violence in Africa
This a broad and thematic/conceptual study which dissects violence in its various manifestations. The chapter delves deep into the phenomenon of...
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The changing forms of corruption in China
China’s famed growth has created a paradox of huge proportions that is associated with how this development could happen despite the well documented...
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“Imperialism without Imperialists” and the Settler-Colonial Logics of Reservation Policing
Growing awareness of U.S. police violence has sparked important discussions that link state violence and the nation’s settler-colonial origins,...
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Retribution, Reciprocity, and Vignettes: Testing the Retribution and Reciprocity Model through Hypothetical Scenarios
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the preliminary evidence for the Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM) and to establish whether it can...